Friedrich Halm

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Friedrich Halm, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber 1858
Friedrich Halm. Graphic by Adolf Neumann.
Grave of Friedrich Halm

Friedrich Halm (actually Eligius Franz Joseph Freiherr von Münch-Bellinghausen ; born April 2, 1806 in Krakow , † May 22, 1871 in Vienna ) was an Austrian poet , novelist and playwright . He is considered the literary representative of the so-called Makart period .

Life

Eligius Franz Joseph Freiherr von Münch-Bellinghausen was born in Krakow as the son of an appellate judge and first attended the Melk Abbey School and the Schotten High School in Vienna. At the age of 13 he began studying philosophy and law at the University of Vienna . At the age of 20 he entered the civil service at the Imperial and Royal Fiscal Office in Linz , married and at the age of 34 made it to the government council . His teacher, the aesthetician Michael Leopold Enk von der Burg , had a significant influence on his literary and poetic endeavors, which were kept secret for a long time . In 1835, Münch-Bellinghausen's first work Griseldis was performed with great success under the pseudonym Friedrich Halm , which was later retained .

In 1845 he took over the first custodian position at the kk court library with the title of court counselor , for which he made important reforms. From 1865 to 1869 he was chairman of the administrative board of the German Schiller Foundation . In 1866 he became a privy councilor with the title of Excellency, in 1867 prefect of the court library with supervision of the court collections. From 1869 to 1871 he was general manager of the two Viennese court theaters and was close friends with the castle actress Julie Rettich .

His uncle was Joachim Graf Münch-Bellinghausen , the owner of the Merkenstein and Gainfarn estates in Bad Vöslau.

Honors

His grave of honor is located in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 0, Row 1, Number 100). In 1876 the Halmgasse in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (2nd district) was named after him.

A marble bust of Halms made by Viktor Tilgner stands in the northern staircase of the Vienna Burgtheater , a portrait bust of Halms, also made by Tilgner, has been part of the facade decoration of the Burgtheater since 1888.

Services

As a playwright, succeeding Franz Grillparzer, he is one of the most popular playwrights of his time. He was even more successful than this in the theater and was also based on Spanish drama. His theatrical pieces, some of them sensational, have largely been forgotten today; the stories influenced by Heinrich von Kleist and the Italian novelistic are still of interest, especially the very early novel Das Auge Gottes about the psychological self-destruction of a knight who slanders God, and that Novellist masterpiece Das Haus an der Veronabrücke about the loss of humanity as a result of a madness. The danger of monomania is one of the constant core themes of Friedrich Halms novellistics, and in this novellistic field he is a master of the most profound mental representation.

Works

Dramas

stories

Others

  • Poems , 1850. online
  • Collected Works , 8 vols., 1856–1864
  • stories

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Münch-Bellinghausen, Eligius Franz Joseph Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1868, pp. 421–441 ( digitized version ).
  • Anton Schönbach:  Halm, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 718-725.
  • Hermann Schneider: Friedrich Halm and the Spanish drama. Mayer and Müller, Berlin 1909.
  • Hermann Petersen: Friedrich Halm "The Fencer of Ravenna". Marburg an der Lahn: Univ. Diss. 1910.
  • Gerhard Boden: The style in the dramas of Friedrich Halms. Workers' printing works, Görlitz 1911 Dissertation Royal University of Greifswald, Philosophical Faculty 1911.
  • Charlotte Reinecke: Studies on Halms stories and their technique. Mohr, Tübingen 1912.
  • Paul Lambertz: The five-footed iambus in the dramas of Friedrich Halms (A metric investigation). Kassel 1914.
  • Rudolf Peltz: Halm and the stage. Munster i. W .: Univ. Diss. 1925.
  • Curt Vancsa: New contributions to honor Friedrich Halms. Vienna: 1927.
  • Charlotte Muenster: Münch-Bellinghausen (Friedrich Halm) as director of the Vienna Burgtheater. Vienna: Univ. Diss. 1943.
  • Karl Nahlik: Friedrich Halm and the Burgtheater. Vienna: Univ. Diss. 1948.
  • Dietrich Arendt: The novellist work of Friedrich Halms. Marburg: Univ. Diss. 1953.
  • Kurt Vancsa:  Halm, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 569 ( digitized version ).
  • Edward Henry Siebert: A Typology of Friedrich Halm's dramas. OCLC 34041601 (Thesis 4238 - Dissertation Phil. University of Connecticut 1973, 180 pages).
  • M. Enzinger:  Münch von Bellinghausen Eligius Franz Josef Frh .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 434.
  • Tony Richard Page: Friedrich Halm's 'The Eye of God'. An Analysis of the Complete Text. Oxford [1988], OCLC 43126328 (Dissertation Phil. University of Oxford 1988, 2 volumes, 373, 131 pages, English ).

Web links

Holdings in the catalogs of the Austrian National Library Vienna

Commons : Friedrich Halm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Friedrich Halm  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Vancsa:  Halm, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 569 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Halm, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münch-Bellinghausen, Eligius Franz Joseph Freiherr von; Bellinghausen, Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian poet and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1871
Place of death Vienna